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Please, note, that this challenge blog is not related to any business and run without any profit by people, who do this for your and their own leisure time fun! Our only reward are your encouraging comments and your playing along and sharing steampunk fun and mixed media techniques. We appreciate every single entry and comment so much! Thank you for taking the time!

If you are new to this place, please, know that we are so glad that you stopped by our little steampunk corner!Whether you are a dedicated tag or card maker, art journaler or mixed media lover - this might be the right place for you! For more information about the rules and the little "steampunk/industrial twist" we ask of you, please check the "about" stuff and then simply jump in and create!

If you are new to steampunk and not sure if this is "your thing", maybe take a look at our winners gallery on pinterest (use the linking button on our side bar). You will find that we're mainly a mixed media challenge blog with a little twist towards steampunk, industrial and/or vintage. So why not give it a try?

We are looking forward to seeing your fab projects entered to one of our challenges soon!

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Time for the mid-month reminder of our December challenge, dear crafting steampunk friends:

this month Iris from Irishteddy's is providing us with a 10 Euro voucher for her wonderful online store, which will be given to a randomly drawn winner from all the entries for this month's challenge.

Thank you very much, Iris! ;)

To learn more about our December challenge just click here and hop over to the challenge post. We hope you will find some spare time between all the X-mas preparations to enter our challenge and have some steampunky X-mas crafting fun!

Congrats, Sabine! Please, contact us for further details on your lovely win! (The contact button can be found on top of our side bar).

But now to our Top3! You once again gave us a hard time choosing as we really loved all your entries! Thank you all so much for playing with us so constantly and sharing your awesome art with us over here!

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

As there were such a lot of wonderful entries and we are in the middle of choosing our Top3 for Saturday (which is - as always - really difficult but has to be done ;) I thought I'd share another spotlight on another fab entry with you:

I love the colours she used and that the balloon seems to float in the far background of the misterious scenery. I also love the depth she created and that second balloon that can be seen through the French window... look how she draws the focus to it by the structure of the floor boards and the open door! A brilliant make, isn't it?

Thank you, Titbelsoeur, for sharing your beautiful art with us. Please, feel free to take the badge for your blog. Looking forward to seeing you enter one of our challenges again ;)

Hugs and happy crafting and if you already haven't then have a look at our December challenge now - we would love you to join in our X-mas-Steampunk fun!

Sunday, December 1, 2013

It's time for a new challenge over here and to dive into Christmas too - only with a steampunk twist of course ;)

This month we want you to create

Santa's New Or Pimped Up Vehicle

Maybe Santa has decided to switch to a more modern vehicle or his old sleigh needed a technical make over..... show us what it is that he will come in this X-mas!

As long as your project is obviously steampunk oriented you can make it an "anything goes" - from 2D to 3D creations (for which we offer as always two separate collections). But, please, do also check our challenge rules (to be found on top of the page).

Again you blew us away with all your artful and creative entries for the november challenge! You are so great! Thank you all so much! Please, check back next saturday to see if you are the prize winner or among our Top3.

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This month we also have another Guest Designer with us - please, welcome the lovely talented Maura from the "Two Crafting Sisters"! And - as we had expected - she created the most lovely and whimsical vehicle for Santa:

This is so gorgeous, isn't it?

And this is what Maura wrote us about herself to share with you all:

Hi, I'm Maura and delighted
and honored to have been asked to be a guest designer here this month - I
love challenges! I'm from upstate New York where I have a fantastic
view of the Adirondack mountains from my craft space - great
inspiration. My family is my husband, the artist and musician, two grown
sons, and Jasper, our jack russell. I teach science and have a passion
for art and crafting, I always have some project in the works. As a long
time Sci-Fi and fantasy fan, I was ready for Steampunk! For me, it is
the perfect blend of science and imagination, and I love to let it run
wild. Santa's pimped out steampunk hot air balloon all started with a
light bulb and a bucket...

Thanks Amelie and SanDee!

Crafty hugs...oops, watch the inky fingers,

Maura

Thank you so much, Maura, for your charming make and for being with us this month! We really love your balloon Santa comes in as it is such an enchanting project! Big hug and wishes!!!

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And here come the DT makes which (hopefully) get you all inspired for creating awesome makes for entering our challenge ;)